Use front end menus for emPath staff and employee self service (ESS) usage.
Creating front end menus are very beneficial for ESS usage such that when the server is down for maintenance you can easily notify thousands of users. Also, by placing the front end menu on a different server you are insured the employees will see a friendly message instead of an unfriendly error.
Following is an example of a staff front end menu:
Note the potential for links to different servers (production, QA testing, and development)Note the potential to link to documentation.Note that the potential to use the center of the page to share information in a collapsible list.Note that the potential exists to convey planned outage with a red arrow pointing at the message.Following is an example of an Employee Self Service (ESS) front end menu
- Note the potential to display welcome and instructional messages in multiple languages.
- Note the potential to display planned system outage information.
- Note the potential to display instructions in multiple languages
- Note the potential to place an instructional message on the login page using multiple languages via the MSG value in the URL query string. See the related article below for full details.
Please note that these front end menus are very easy to develop and if you are interested can be developed as a custom from Applied Concepts HR/Payroll. If a client is interested in these as a custom we will consider generalizing them such that a product offering is available
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